Board members can be among your organization’s most outwardly facing presences. Their time and effort can influence elements as fundamental as programming, governance, messaging, and fundraising. With that level of importance comes risk, however, and there might sometimes be situations in which the risk associated with a board member or the person’s poor performance might be greater than a potential reward. Such situations were part of Simone Joyaux of Joyaux Associates’ presentation “Firing Lousy Board Members” at the 2018 Fundraising Day in New York...

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The Grantsmanship Center in Los Angeles, Calif., each year facilitates funder panels in which representatives from foundations speak with participants. While the “please don’t” list below is not comprehensive, nine years of panel discussions involving more than 20 grantmakers and almost 1,000 training participants allow the largest issues to bubble to the top...

Close your eyes and picture what a foundation looks like to you. That image might look very different depending on where you are in the world, according to the Global Philanthropy Report, an international perspective on foundations authored by Paula D. Johnson of The Hauser Institute for Civil Society at Harvard University and supported by UBS Financial Services...